Mercury Reads: Kingdom Come
Show Bio
Join us for Mercury Reads a series of lively rehearsed readings celebrating local voices and fresh new writing. Each event spotlights an exciting playwright from our region, giving audiences the chance to see new stories take shape for the very first time.
In this session, join us in the Upstairs Bar on Fri 20 Feb at 4pm as we look at Mercury Reads: Kingdom Come by Lydia Sabatini.
Two women with metastatic cancer enter a cabin in the forest… and see some strange things.
Barb and Claudia are two not-quite-friends in their 70s who head deep into a forest to get some rest and relaxation. They get on well despite their differences: Barb wants to be in nature, Claudia hates dirt and wants to cook and play music.
But when one day Barb returns from the forest totally changed, their different attitudes, to life, illness and family start to come between them, threatening to uproot everything they know about themselves and how they want to spend the time they have left.
Cast
Lydia Sabatini
Lydia Sabatini is a London-based playwright originally from Essex. Her work has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for playwriting in 2021 and longlisted in 2023. She has participated in the Bush Theatre’s Emerging Writers Group 2021/2, the Traverse Theatre’s Breakthrough Writers: In Residence Programme 2022/3, the Mercury Theatre’s Playwrights Programme 2022/3, the London Library’s Emerging Writers Programme 2023/4, Orange Tree Theatre’s Writers Collective 2023/4 and BOLD Playwrights 2024 and the Royal Court Writer’s Group 2025. She co-wrote CONSUMED with her theatre company Dreambite Collective which ran at Camden People’s Theatre in 2024.
Anni Domingo
Claudia
Anni Domingo
Claudia
TBC
Barb
TBC
Barb
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